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Progressive Era Reforms: Addressing Immigrant Poverty and Alcoholism

During the Progressive Era, settlement houses were established in immigrant neighborhoods to assist those facing poverty and urban slums. Middle-class women helped immigrants navigate culture shock and provided needed services, including childcare and English language programs. Notable figures like Jane Addams at Hull House spearheaded these efforts. At the same time, Progressives addressed alcoholism, advocating for temperance and the eventual prohibition of alcohol in 1919, believing it was linked to societal issues. This complex social reform movement aimed to uplift struggling communities.

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Progressive Era Reforms: Addressing Immigrant Poverty and Alcoholism

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  1. SOCIAL REFORM Progressive Era

  2. Social Problem:IMMIGRANT POVERTY AND URBAN SLUMS Progressives set up “settlement houses” Homes placed in immigrant neighborhoods, where middle-class women help immigrants • Immigrants live in ghettoes, city slums • Immigrants experience culture shock • Immigrants don’t have child care or English language programs

  3. Jane ADDAMS & Hull HOUSE

  4. Jane ADDAMS

  5. Hull HOUSE

  6. Social Problem: alcoholism Progressives want to encourage people to moderate their drinking (TEMPERANCE) Later, they want people to stop completely (TEETOTALER= “total” abstinence from alcohol) • People work hard and have hard lives • They want (and need) to drink • Immigrants from Europe bring traditions of drinking from the old country

  7. Promoting Moral Improvement

  8. Temperance?

  9. 18th Amendment (1919) • Some reformers blamed alcohol for many of society’s problems • Prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” within the United States • Repealed in 1933 by the 21st Amendment

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